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My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
by Mary Frances Berry

Publication Date: Oct 10, 2006
List Price: $16.95
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780307277053
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Paperback Description:

“My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest dealing with my fellow man.” Callie House (1899)In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian Dr. Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House (1861-1928) who, seventy years before the civil-rights movement, headed a demand for ex-slave reparations. A widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five, House went on to fight for African American pensions based on those offered to Union soldiers, brilliantly targeting $68 million in taxes on seized rebel cotton and demanding it as repayment for centuries of unpaid labor. Here is the fascinating story of a forgotten civil rights crusader: a woman who emerges as a courageous pioneering activist, a forerunner of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.



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